Possible Clues:

• Long-legged shorebird with a slender upward-curving bill
• Bird at cove, flying
• Black and white wading bird with an upcurved bill
• Bird symbolic of the RSPB
• Wader
• Shorebird with a curved bill
• Some malevolent eco-vandal set about bird
• Wading bird, rejecting company, protected by an animal doctor
• Long-legged wading bird with a slender upturned bill
• Shorebird — octave (anag)